Mali Militants Say They Killed French Hostage

Jihadist Group MUJWA Says Gilberto Rodriguez-Leal Was Killed Because France is 'Enemy'

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Stacy Meichtry

April 22, 2014 5:31 p.m. ET

PARIS—A French man taken hostage in Mali two years ago has likely died, French officials said Tuesday, in a turn of events that highlights the still simmering conflict between France and jihadist groups operating in the West African country's hinterland.

Agence France-Presse received a phone call Tuesday from a spokesman for the Movement for Unicity and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJWA, announcing that Gilberto Rodriguez-Leal, a French retiree abducted in late 2012, had been killed, France's Foreign Ministry said in a...